Total Board Vision for Beginners by GM Sam Shankland

Here’s How To See Through The
Winning Positions Beginners
WILL Give You

This guided training course turns on your 360-degree chess vision. So you can dodge the mistakes newbies make all the time… and spot the opponent’s hanging pieces, missed mates, and other winning tactics you’re bound to get.

Imagine having total vision of the board.

As soon as your opponent plays a move, the squares they control zoom into view. So you’re warned of danger.

Then as the game progresses, you visualize the way the pieces interact, and how they might line up for a shot. So when they do align — and they will — you simply repeat a familiar pattern to grab the full point.

Soon, you’ll be able to anticipate moves like 11.Nc3,
and set the opponent up for a tactic!

If you like the sound of that, then enter Total Board Vision for Beginners.

Inside, Grandmaster Sam Shankland guides your mind’s eye and instills good thinking habits in you. So that you’re always paying attention to the right things at the right time, namely…

The Most Common Reasons
Beginners Win or Lose Games

Shankland shows you how to stop hanging pieces, missing checkmates, and exposing yourself to tactics at different phases of the game…

Plus, how to capitalize on these mistakes by the opponent to take the win.

Let’s tour you around the course:

In the first chapter, Shankland turns the tables against notorious opening tricks at your level. Some of which you might’ve seen already, but don’t know the name yet.

He teaches you how to:

✅ Outsmart the Fried Liver Attack, and gain strength in numbers.

The Fried Liver Attack looks scary… but you’ll
never have to deal with it again after completing
the chapter on “Opening Vision”

✅ Punish the Runaway Queen for trying to checkmate you in 4 moves.

✅ And protect your “blind spot” from reckless attacks.

Next, Shankland surveys the tell-tale signs of a tactic — which, once learned, enable you to set up decisive combos yourself.

You’ll learn about:

✅ The easiest way to win material, and outnumber the opponent. Ask these 3 questions to find the unprotected piece, then take it.

✅ The 4-point radar for preventing knight forks… including how to measure the forking distance.

✅ How to avoid pawn forks — or set one up when the other side dares to enter your half of the board.

✅ The 3 types of alignment… plus simple ways to pick off enemy pieces standing on a straight line.

And many more.

Shankland builds your board vision through almost 5 hours of video and almost 100 MoveTrainer exercises.

They simulate the guided sparring and continuous feedback Shankland received at the Berkeley Chess School.

He chose real games within the 400 to 1000-level to focus on the mistakes people will make against you.

Meanwhile, the notes draw your attention to the real-time changes on the board… as if Shankland is coaching you live.

So after signing up for Total Board Vision for Beginners, read the introduction. Choose the recommended settings…

And enjoy the flow of instruction and feedback, which took the 2-time Olympiad gold medalist over the beginner level.